Cork University Press

Emmet O'Connor uses archival sources, including declassified Soviet Union and FBI files, to cast light on Jim Larkin and his relations with international communism. He aims to uncover the motivation behind Larkin's public persona.

A novel collection that draws together a European field of expertise and resources. It reveals how Belgian, French, Italian, Luxembourg, Dutch, and West German politicians, policymakers and commentators perceived independent Ireland from the end of the Second World War until Irish accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973.

This inaugural volume in the Studies in Irish Music Education series is the first publication to bring together a unique collection of papers by leading national and international authors with wide expertise and extensive experience in the field

This book explores the ways that women combine motherhood with paid work in contemporary Ireland and the consequences for individual women, families, childminders and Irish society. This book demonstrates the difficulties women encounter when trying to satisfy working and mothering lives which are governed by quite different values.

There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations. The earliest efforts to do so at the beginning of the 20th century were predictably clumsy at best, and truly dreadful at worst.

O'Sullivan Beare wrote the Zoilomastix in order to refute the Topographia Hiberniae of Giraldus Cambrensis, which was very derogatory of Ireland and the Irish people

Presents all of George Petrie's original text "The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland", the melodies and his introduction. This book contains nearly two hundred melodies as well as song texts in Irish and English. It is prefaced with a biographical essay, which positions the collection in the context of the author's life and work.

This book starts by explaining why uncertainty has increased, the challenges this brings and why it is likely to continue to be a feature of all our lives over the 21st century

This title presents an in-depth study of the lives and politics of two of the most interesting social radicals of their time. Quakers, Anna and Thomas Haslam campaigned for social reform in the late 19th century, and played a central role in the formation of an early Irish feminist agenda in the early 20th century.

The Abortion Papers is a unique edited collection that provides key reflections and scholarship on the Irish abortion regime generated in the period between the 1992 X case, the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012 and the subsequent introduction in 2013 of limited abortion legislation.

So you want to be a professional footballer, do you? You'd do anything to get there? Well, think again, because that's what Larkin's lot wanted, and all they got was hell...